From the Uranium One scandal to rigging the Democrat primary race in 2016, Hillary Clinton is up to her ears in corruption. Underneath the surface is a little known scandal about what Clinton knew concerning Libya’s thriving slave trade and genocidal death squads.

A new CNN investigation has uncovered a network of slave markets operating in warehouses in various cities across Libya six years after NATO-led intervention in the country toppled the government of Muammar Gaddafi in support of US and UK backed rebels. And not only did CNN confirm the presence of slave auctions where human beings are being sold for as little as $400 in “liberated” Libya, but CNN’s crew was actually able to film a live auction in progress, while also gathering the testimonies of multiple victims.

Though CNN’s footage and accompanying report is shocking, such practices have been quietly documented for years, and clear warnings were issued starting in early 2011 that Libya’s black as well as migrant population would be the first to fall victim at the hands of the Islamist Libyan rebels that NATO’s war empowered. From the outset critics of Western intervention in Libya loudly sounded the alarm of a genocide against black Libyans in progress committed by the very rebels the US, UK, France, and Gulf allies were arming – a fact so well-known that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was personally briefed and warned on the matter.

[…]One of the few international correspondents to actually report the truth in real time while writing from inside Libya was The Independent’s (UK) Patrick Cockburn. In an August 2011 story he wrote as if attempting to warn the world about the future war crimes to come at the hands of the US-backed rebels.

“The rotting bodies of 30 men, almost all black and many handcuffed, slaughtered as they lay on stretchers and even in an ambulance in central Tripoli, are an ominous foretaste of what might be Libya’s future. The incoming regime makes pious statements about taking no revenge on pro-Gaddafi forces, but this stops short of protecting those who can be labelled mercenaries. Any Libyan with a black skin accused of fighting for the old regime may have a poor chance of survival,” reported Independent UK reporter Patrick Cockburn.

What Clinton knew about the African slave trade and death squads is even more shocking in the context of how badly the former Secretary of State managed the removal of Gaddafi and the Benghazi attack.As The Gateway Pundit’s Joe Hoft reported, the ‘tick tock’ emails show Hillary’s team taking credit for many actions that led to Gaddafi’s toppling in Libya, including, but not limited to: suspending the operations of the Libyan embassy in Washington; evacuating US embassy personnel in Tripoli and closing the embassy there; obtaining sanctions against Gaddafi and his family; working to suspend Libya from the Human Rights Council; appointing Special Envoy Chris Stevens to be the U.S. representative to Benghazi; engaging with UAE, Qatar, and Jordan to seek their participation in coalition operations; holding meetings with House Democrats and Senate Republicans to persuade them not to de-fund the Libya operation; an lastly, Hillary’s State Department worked to construct a $1.5 billion assets package to the TNC.

The Clinton State Department took credit for being the architect behind the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya and the subsequent horror as a result.

Now new information released earlier this week and reported at Infowars revealed that a peace deal was worked out in Libya in 2011 but when presented to Hillary, she nixed it.

According to the report, General Clark, who was part of the negotiations, was so pleased with the outcome that he personally arranged a teleconference with Hillary Clinton on the line to congratulate those who put the deal together for “getting the job done in the face of such danger.” But there was a problem. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn’t want peace.

Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, who was murdered by Western-backed rebels on October 20, 2011, planned to create a gold-backed African currency to compete with the dollar and euro. (Photo: Jesse B. Awalt/US Navy)

Newly disclosed emails show that Libya’s plan to create a gold-backed currency to compete with the euro and dollar was a motive for NATO’s intervention.The New Year’s Eve release of over 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails from the State Department has CNN abuzz over gossipy text messages, the “who gets to ride with Hillary” selection process set up by her staff, and how a “cute” Hillary photo fared on Facebook.

But historians of the 2011 NATO war in Libya will be sure to notice a few of the truly explosive confirmations contained in the new emails: admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, Al Qaeda embedded in the U.S. backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency.

Hillary’s Death Squads

A March 27, 2011, intelligence brief [archived here] on Libya, sent by long time close adviser to the Clintons and Hillary’s unofficial intelligence gatherer, Sidney Blumenthal, contains clear evidence of war crimes on the part of NATO-backed rebels. Citing a rebel commander source “speaking in strict confidence” Blumenthal reports to Hillary [emphasis mine]:

Under attack from allied Air and Naval forces, the Libyan Army troops have begun to desert to the rebel side in increasing numbers. The rebels are making an effort to greet these troops as fellow Libyans, in an effort to encourage additional defections.

(Source Comment: Speaking in strict confidence, one rebel commander stated that his troops continue to summarily execute all foreign mercenaries captured in the fighting…).

While the illegality of extra-judicial killings is easy to recognize (groups engaged in such are conventionally termed “death squads”), the sinister reality behind the “foreign mercenaries” reference might not be as immediately evident to most.

While over the decades Gaddafi was known to make use of European and other international security and infrastructural contractors, there is no evidence to suggest that these were targeted by the Libyan rebels.There is, however, ample documentation by journalists, academics, and human rights groups demonstrating that black Libyan civilians and sub-Saharan contract workers, a population favored by Gaddafi in his pro-African Union policies, were targets of “racial cleansing” by rebels who saw black Libyans as tied closely with the regime.[1]

Black Libyans were commonly branded as “foreign mercenaries” by the rebel opposition for their perceived general loyalty to Gaddafi as a community and subjected to torture, executions, and their towns “liberated” by ethnic cleansing. This is demonstrated in the most well-documented example of Tawergha, an entire town of 30,000 black and “dark-skinned” Libyans which vanished by August 2011 after its takeover by NATO-backed NTC Misratan brigades.

These attacks were well-known as late as 2012 and often filmed, as this report from The Telegraph confirms:

After Muammar Gaddafi was killed, hundreds of migrant workers from neighboring states were imprisoned by fighters allied to the new interim authorities. They accuse the black Africans of having been mercenaries for the late ruler. Thousands of sub-Saharan Africans have been rounded up since Gaddafi fell in August.

It appears that Clinton was getting personally briefed on the battlefield crimes of her beloved anti-Gaddafi fighters long before some of the worst of these genocidal crimes took place.

Al-Qaeda and Western Special Forces Inside Libya

The same intelligence email from Sydney Blumenthal also confirms what has become a well-known theme of Western supported insurgencies in the Middle East: the contradiction of special forces training militias that are simultaneously suspected of links to Al Qaeda.

Blumenthal relates that “an extremely sensitive source” confirmed that British, French, and Egyptian special operations units were training Libyan militants along the Egyptian-Libyan border, as well as in Benghazi suburbs.

While analysts have long speculated as to the “when and where” of Western ground troop presence in the Libyan War, this email serves as definitive proof that special forces were on the ground only within a month of the earliest protests which broke out in the middle to end of February 2011 in Benghazi.

By March 27 of what was commonly assumed a simple “popular uprising” external special operatives were already “overseeing the transfer of weapons and supplies to the rebels” including “a seemingly endless supply of AK47 assault rifles and ammunition.”

Yet only a few paragraphs after this admission, caution is voiced about the very militias these Western special forces were training because of concern that, “radical/terrorist groups such as the Libyan Fighting Groups and Al Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are infiltrating the NLC and its military command.”

The Threat of Libya’s Oil and Gold to French Interests

Though the French-proposed U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 claimed the no-fly zone implemented over Libya was to protect civilians, an April 2011 email [archived here] sent to Hillary with the subject line “France’s client and Qaddafi’s gold” tells of less noble ambitions.

The email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind: to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase Sarkozy’s reputation domestically, assert French military power, and to prevent Gaddafi’s influence in what is considered “Francophone Africa.”

Most astounding is the lengthy section delineating the huge threat that Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves, estimated at “143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver,” posed to the French franc (CFA) circulating as a prime African currency. In place of the noble sounding “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine fed to the public, there is this “confidential” explanation of what was really driving the war [emphasis mine]:

This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).

(Source Comment: According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya.)

Though this internal email aims to summarize the motivating factors driving France’s (and by implication NATO’s) intervention in Libya, it is interesting to note that saving civilian lives is conspicuously absent from the briefing.

Instead, the great fear reported is that Libya might lead North Africa into a high degree of economic independence with a new pan-African currency.

French intelligence “discovered” a Libyan initiative to freely compete with European currency through a local alternative, and this had to be subverted through military aggression.

The Ease of Floating Crude Propaganda

Early in the Libyan conflict Secretary of State Clinton formally accused Gaddafi and his army of using mass rape as a tool of war. Though numerous international organizations, like Amnesty International, quickly debunked these claims, the charges were uncritically echoed by Western politicians and major media.

It seemed no matter how bizarre the conspiracy theory, as long as it painted Gaddafi and his supporters as monsters, and so long as it served the cause of prolonged military action in Libya, it was deemed credible by network news.

Two foremost examples are referenced in the latest batch of emails: the sensational claim that Gaddafi issued Viagra to his troops for mass rape, and the claim that bodies were “staged” by the Libyan government at NATO bombing sites to give the appearance of the Western coalition bombing civilians.

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Sources now say, again rumor (that is, this information comes from the rebel side and is unconfirmed independently by Western intelligence), that Qaddafi has adopted a rape policy and has even distributed Viagra to troops. The incident at the Tripoli press conference involving a woman claiming to be raped is likely to be part of a much larger outrage. Will seek further confirmation.

Not only did Defense Secretary Robert Gates promote his bizarre “staged bodies” theory on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” but the even stranger Viagra rape fiction made international headlines as U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice made a formal charge against Libya in front of the UN Security Council.

What this new email confirms is that not only was the State Department aware of the spurious nature of what Blumenthal calls “rumors” originating solely with the rebels, but did nothing to stop false information from rising to top officials who then gave them “credence.”

A Libya w/o Gaddafi = an open border to Europe - a fact well known by all involved....The depraved levels to be rid of him include susan rice saying he is giving his soldiers viagra??????
Oh yes, kill the ruling figure of a nation that took his country out of tribal tents living in the desert into a somewhat civilized society with housing, irrigation systems, etc. & most importantly did not allow transit thru his land into Europe as we see today. In recent times, for a muslim ruler, he actually was behaving himself unlike iran, iraq & other muslim country rulers. The "shores of Tripoli" was actually a fight to prohibit Libya from securing its immediate waters from others. Another ????? going way back n time...Sid Blumenthal Floated Disputed Gaddafi Viagra Rape Rumor In Confidential Memo To Hillary

Chuck Ross 12/31/15

Reports of the distribution of 'Viagra-type' pills to troops add an unprecedented element to Gaddafi's alleged war crimes

Emails released by the State Department on Thursday show that Hillary Clinton’s longtime friend and off-the-books intelligence gatherer, Sidney Blumenthal, passed her a disputed rumor that former Libyan president Moammar Gaddafi supplied his troops with Viagra in order to rape women who supported the rebellion against his government.

That claim, which Blumenthal emailed to Clinton on March 27, 2011, was eventually voiced by Susan Rice, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, during an April 28, 2011 meeting with the UN’s Security Council.

Rice’s comment was met with intense skepticism at the time. Diplomats and U.S. military personnel said that they had no evidence to support her contention. Many saw the claims that Gaddafi was behind a massive rape campaign as an attempt to drum up support for the U.S.-led intervention. Clinton and Rice were among the Obama administration’s most vocal proponents.

In his “confidential” memo, entitled “Rumor: Q’s rape policy,” Blumenthal wrote that “Sources now say, again rumor (that is, this information comes from the rebel side and is unconfirmed independently by Western intelligence), that Qaddafi has adopted a rape policy and has even distributed Viagra to troops.”

The day after Blumenthal sent Clinton the memo, Al-Jazeera published what appears to be the first news report about the rumors.

“Several doctors say they have found Viagra tablets and condoms in the pockets of dead pro-Gaddafi fighters, alleging that they were using rape as a weapon of war,” the report reads.
“They say they have been treating female rape survivors who were allied with pro-democracy forces.”

According to The Guardian, a UN diplomat who was present at the April 2011 meeting with Rice said: “I was in the room when she mentioned Viagra. The remark did not cause a stir at the time. It was during a discussion about whether there is moral equivalence between the Gaddafi forces and the rebels. She listed human rights abuses by Gaddafi’s forces, including snipers shooting children in the street and the Viagra story.”

According to an NBC News report at the time, Rice’s claim “was made in an attempt to persuade doubters the conflict in Libya was not just a standard civil war but a much nastier fight.”

The timing of Blumenthal’s emails and the publication of the Al-Jazeera article raises the question of whether the journalist-turned-Clinton supporter was involved in perpetuating the Viagra rumor.

The shadowy Blumenthal is known to have worked behind the scenes to plant stories with reporters that further his agenda or those of his allies. During the run-up to the Libyan intervention, Blumenthal was working as a consultant for Osprey Global Solutions, a defense company that sought contracts in a post-Gaddafi Libya.

It is also unclear where Rice first heard the Viagra claim and what prompted her to repeat it.

But her remarks at the UN meeting would not be the first time Rice has floated bombshell claims without much proof. She gained notoriety in Sept. 2012 when she repeated a false claim — taken from Obama administration talking points — that the Benghazi attacks were a spontaneous response to the video “Innocence of Muslims.” Rice made the claim five days after the attacks, even though the Obama administration and State Department knew by then that the attacks were pre-planned acts of terror.

There appear to be no other Clinton emails to Rice or anyone else mentioning the rumor.
Clinton forwarded Blumenthal’s memo to her aide Jake Sullivan, asking him “What do we know about this?”

The claims that Gaddafi used rape as a tool of war has still not been settled. In June 2011, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, a prosecutor with the UN’s International Criminal Court, said he had evidence that Gaddafi gave his troops Viagra in order to conduct the rape campaign.

But Cherif Bassiouni, a UN investigator who was looking into the Libya situation at the time, disputed Moreno-Ocampo, calling the rape claims “massive hysteria.”

Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders and other human rights groups have also said they found no evidence to support the claim.